* Improve startup performance
  - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
  - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
  - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code,
    and load it at startup
  - Same change also applied to unittests

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+July 31th, 2010
+
+* Improve startup performance
+  - Separate generated metadata binary file to one file per region
+  - Preload US at start up, and load other region at the time when needed
+  - Create a file containing mapping from country calling code to region code,
+    and load it at startup
+  - Same change also applied to unittests
+
+July 30th, 2010
+
+* Metadata change:
+  - new country: TL
+  - update to existing country: AZ, CN, FR, GH, JO, LA, PG, PK, QA, SZ, UA, VN
+
+* Code improvement
+  - China local number formatting for AsYouTypeFormatter
+  - improve extension parsing to handle number in the form of +1 (645) 123 1234 ext. 910#
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